I noticed this bullshit the other day when I went to download Filezilla from Sourceforge.

Had to find it somewhere else as the Sourceforge download came with spyware. Very sad, as Sourceforge is where I get probably 80% of the free software I use.

Someone decided to cash in, I guess.

Though it’s not directly related, pretty amazing that due to the war on general purpose computing that though bandwidth gets cheaper all the time, binaries on the internet are getting harder to find and to download.

One day, it will likely be de facto illegal to download them as they might be used to infringe copyright somehow.